City Council — Regular Meeting, April 6, 2020

City Manager's Agenda (4)

• CMA 2020 #78A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a request for the City Council to adopt a statutory small business exemption for personal property accounts equal to or less than $10,000.00 in assessed value, and if approved as a special act by the Legislature and Governor of the Commonwealth, for personal property accounts equal to or less than $20,000.00 in assessed valuebudget📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• CMA 2020 #79Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the transfer of $25,000 from the General Fund Electrical Department Salary & Wages Account to the Electrical Travel and Training account (Judgments and Damages) to cover medical services and/or prescription reimbursement costs for personnel injured in performance of their duties
• CMA 2020 #80Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $16,620.00 from Free Cash to the General Fund Human Service Programs Other Ordinary Maintenance account for the support of the daytime operation of the First Church in Cambridge Shelter for the duration of the COVID-19 crisishomelessness
• CMA 2020 #81A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to an update on COVID-19

Communications (7)

7 resident communications received for this meeting — arts (2) · zoning (2) · broadband (1) · schools (1) · homelessness (1). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (4)

• POR 2020 #74That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with the relevant City departments to give the Council a financial impact summary on how the local Covid-19 response will be impacting the City’s free cash and ability to budget looking into July 1, 2021, and to report back to the City Council in a timely manner. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR SIMMONS ON APRIL 6, 2020budget
• POR 2020 #75That the Mayor’s Office be and hereby is urged to convene discussions with representatives of MIT and Harvard University to make determinations as to whether this year’s annual senior luncheon gatherings shall be delayed or cancelled, to determine whether alternative celebrations can be planned it their wake, and to report back to the City Council in a timely manner
• POR 2020 #76That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with the relevant City departments to report back to the Council on what efforts have been made to work with other municipalities on this issue and to work with Cambridge’s State Delegation and the Governor’s office for a comprehensive regional housing plan to be put in place to house the homeless during the COVID-19 emergencyhomelessnesshousing-general
• POR 2020 #77That the City Manager expand tax-filing and stimulus benefit assistance to low-income and unhoused residentshomelessness

Resolutions (2)

• RES 2020 #91Resolution on the death of Maria Moniz
• RES 2020 #92That the City Council go on record thanking the Black Student Union for their important video thanking the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School's Custodial and Food Servicepersons for their dedicated servicelaborschools